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Creepy Readers
Mike Garten
For each spider, gather eight pipe cleaners and twist together at one end to secure. Fan out the pipe cleaners so there are four "legs" on each side of the spider. Wrap tinsel garland around the pipe cleaners and use hot glue to attach it while you wrap.
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Moody Candles
Mike Garten
Turn regular black taper candles into something more sinister by add red hot glue to the body so it looks like blood!
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Mummy Treats
mike garten
Take regular tin cans and wrap them in gauze with googly eyes to create a scary-good treat canister. You can also put little plants inside if you want.
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Bewitching Wreath
Brian Woodcock
Cut 150 6-inch-long strips of 2-inch-wide black grosgrain ribbon. Fold the strips in half and attach them to a 16-inch foam wreath form with straight pins, layering them on top of each other to create a ruffle effect. Once that's dine, but out a silhouette of a witch from black kraft paper.
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Snake Candles
mike garten
There's nothing easier than buying some snake props and using them to up the spooky factor of your decor. Just hang the toys on your taper candles to achieve the look.
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Snake Napkin Holders
mike garten
Another great use of toy snakes? Napkin holders!
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Boo! Pumpkin
mike garten
All you have to do is paint any pumpkin with black paint, and grab some pipe cleaners to spell out the word boo, or any other saying you want!
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Pumpkin Treat Bags
Ren Fuller
Treat bags get an updated look when you use glitter pant to draw on some sparkly pumpkins.
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Clothespin Bats
mike garten
Take any drink to the next level with these adorable bats that can sit nicely on the rim. Simply buy black clothespins or paint them black, and attach DIY bat wings to them with glue.
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Pasta Pumpkins
Mike Garten
For the neon pumpkin, use shell-shaped pasta (you can buy the fake kind) and arrange them into flower shapes all over the pumpkin. For the orange one, paint glue around in a stripe design and use orzo to create the sprinkle-like effect.
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Candy Wreath
mike garten
For something less haunting and more delicious, go for a candy covered wreath. A styrofoam wreath form and some candy is all you need. You can go with real candy or fake!
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Little Monsters
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We love a good toilet paper craft. Here, you and the kids can paint toilet paper rolls in any color, and use pipe cleaners, googly eyes and other supplies to turn them into scary or friendly monsters.
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Shadow Pumpkins
mike garten
Create your own "woman in white." Print an image of a silhouette onto paper, cut it out, then paint the silhouette black or white. Tape the image to the pumpkin using double-sided tape. Attach lace trim with double-sided tape or glue to form a frame around the silhouette.
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Bat Garland
mike garten
Go bat crazy, and hang this cute garland! Cut out bat wings and ears from black construction paper, and glue onto cork stoppers. Then glue on googly eyes. Push greening pins into the bottom of cork stoppers, and thread a ribbon through to hang.
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mike garten
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Pumpkin Planters
Danielle Daly
Give your jack-o'-lantern a silly hairdo with plants! After carving a funny face into the pumpkin, create eyeballs by gluing lentils onto almonds. Then attach them to the pumpkin with dress pins. Place a battery-powered tea light inside the pumpkin, and cover it with a clear bowl. Set your plant on top of the clear bowl, so it sticks out the top of the pumpkin.
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Bloody Lantern
mike garten
Make Edgar Allen Poe proud with this The Raven-esque craft. Outline drops of blood on the opening of a lantern in red marker, and fill in with red glass paint.
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Snail Statue
mike garten
Gary, is that you? Turn a pumpkin on its side, and carve a hole large enough to clean out the inside. This will help the pumpkin sit flat. Draw a double-walled spiral around the stem with a marker, and cut it out. Chop off the bottom of the butternut squash to sit flat. Glue googly eyes onto ping pong balls. Using an X-Acto knife, cut a small x into the bottom of each ping pong ball. Stuff a pipe cleaner into the x, and secure the pipe cleaner to the squash using hot glue.
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Boo-It-Yourself Ghosts
Danielle Daly
Talk about an easy craft! Blow up white balloons. Cut out three ovals from black card stock for the ghost's eyes and mouth. Attach them to the white balloon with dots of glue. Tape white streamers to the base of the balloon.
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Embellished Pumpkins
Brian Woodcock
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